Re: [Marxism] Neoliberalism: not so bad? | Michael Roberts Blog
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html January 10, 2019 Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, on the history, theory, and practice of the doctrine Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Neoliberalism: not so bad? | Michael Roberts Blog
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I don;t know Louis -- I think neoliberalism is a useful term for the current structure of capitalism -- I am pretty persuaded by the SSA school *(I reviewed Kotz's most recent book for Challenge a year or so ago). Capitalism has gone through a few different iterations in the 20th (now 21st) century(ies) and the neo-liberal version is particularly disgusting for ordinary people (the post WWII period was pretty good for segments of the working class -- even relatively improving the lives of people of color and women in general ---) --- since 1980, no such improvements and lots of back-sliding --- On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 8:00 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > I don’t really like the term ‘neoliberal’ because it is used lazily as > an alternative to pro-capitalist policies or even to the word > ‘capitalism’ itself. In doing so, it causes confusion in explanations > about trends and failures in capitalist development. What flows is the > argument that if ‘neoliberalism’ is ended, then we can return to > ‘managed capitalism’ or social democracy’, neither of which, in my view, > should be used to suggest something different from the capitalist mode > of production itself. > > And if leftists continue to use ‘neoliberalism’ as a term to replace > capitalism (or as some nasty ‘free market version), they open the door > to the sort of nonsense that economic journalist Noah Smith concocted > last week, as expressed in his Bloomberg piece: “Neoliberalism should > not be a dirty word on the left”. > > full: > https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/neoliberalism-not-so-bad/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mameerop%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Neoliberalism: not so bad? | Michael Roberts Blog
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I don’t really like the term ‘neoliberal’ because it is used lazily as an alternative to pro-capitalist policies or even to the word ‘capitalism’ itself. In doing so, it causes confusion in explanations about trends and failures in capitalist development. What flows is the argument that if ‘neoliberalism’ is ended, then we can return to ‘managed capitalism’ or social democracy’, neither of which, in my view, should be used to suggest something different from the capitalist mode of production itself. And if leftists continue to use ‘neoliberalism’ as a term to replace capitalism (or as some nasty ‘free market version), they open the door to the sort of nonsense that economic journalist Noah Smith concocted last week, as expressed in his Bloomberg piece: “Neoliberalism should not be a dirty word on the left”. full: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/neoliberalism-not-so-bad/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
